[Footnote 15: In 1913 all Germany was celebrating with great pomp and
warlike display the centenary of the liberation of the country from
Napoleon, and also paying a huge property tax for the coming war.]
[Footnote 16:
_Fecemi la divina Potestate
La somma Sapienza e il primo Amore._
This is part of the inscription over the gates of Hell in the
_Inferno_, Canto III.]